of needing to be bullish b and needing to be strong when it comes to dealing with benjamin netanyahu because everybody's been there before. and i had, um, you know, american officials tell me, you know, benjamin netanyahu thinks that he can, you know, wait this out until we leave, but, you know, we're going to be here longer than him. so we can just, you know, try to move the ball forward a little bit here and there until he's edged out of, you know, the political scene pause that's just the nature of politics in israel. but, you know, benjamin netanyahu's just been reelected. so there were a series of miscalculations. but i think that what i would like to, um, remind people of is that there is a tendency in the arab world and possibly around the world to always say, you know, america did this wrong, it's america's fault. america didn't deliver. and i think to some extent there is absolutely truth to that, but i think that it's also important for people in the region, for people like me, for people in the arab world to come to grips with their own responsibility about what they can d